1. An example of holography
Photographs of a holographic image from two different angles, showing the changing perspective.

2. What is holography?
By using a beam splitter and mirrors, coherent laser light illuminates an object from different perspectives. Interference effects provide the depth that makes a three-dimensional image from two-dimensional views.
Invented by Dennis Gabor, 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics

3. Holography depends on interference and the wave nature of light
By using a beam splitter and mirrors, coherent laser light illuminates an object from different perspectives. Interference effects provide the depth that makes a three-dimensional image from two-dimensional views.
Invented by Dennis Gabor, 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics

4. Michael Jackson Hologram at Billboard Music Awards
This is Michael Jackson performing on stage after his death.

5. Review with clicker examples
Single slit diffraction
Multiple slit interference
On Friday, start special relativity

6. Single-Slit Diffraction (Review)P
Incident Wave
(wavelength l) y L a d
Slit of width a. Where are the minima?
Use Huygens’ principle: treat each point across the opening of the slit as a wave source.
The first minimum is at an angle such that the light from the top and the middle of the slit destructively interfere.
This works, because for every point in the top half, there is a corresponding point in the bottom half that cancels it. q
a/2 d
The second minimum is at an angle such that the light from the top and a point at a/4 destructively interfere:
Urbana materials including clicker questions.
Location of nth-minima:

7. Single-Slit Diffraction Example
Suppose that when we pass red light (l = 600 nm) through a slit of unknown width a, the width of the spot (the distance between the first zeros on each side of the bright peak) is W = 1 cm on a screen that is L = 2 m behind the slit. How wide is the slit? a
W = 1 cm q
L = 2 m
The angle to the first zero is: θ = ±λ/a
W = 2L tan(θ) ≈ 2Lθ = 2Lλ/a
a = 2Lλ /W = (4m)(6 x10-7 m) /(10-2 m) = 2.4x 10-4 m = 0.24 mm

8. Multiple Slit Interference (Review)2π
-2π I4
16I1
N=4 I5
25I1
N=5 I3
9I1
N=3 ϕ θ
-λ/d λ/d
-λ/d λ/d
-λ/d λ/d
The positions of the principal maxima occur at ϕ = 0, ±2π, ±4π, ... where ϕ is the phase between adjacent slits. θ = 0, ± λ/d, ±2λ /d, ...
The intensity at the peak of a principal maximum goes as N2. 3 slits: Atot = 3A1  Itot = 9I1. N slits: IN = N2I1.
Between two principal maxima there are N-1 zeros and N-2 secondary maxima ; The peak width ~ 1/N Why ???
The total power in a principal maximum is proportional to N2(1/N) = N.
Multi-slit computer program.

9. Clicker review #1
Light interfering from 10 equally spaced slits initially illuminates a screen. Now we double the number of slits, keeping the spacing constant.
1. What happens to the intensity I at the principal maxima?
a. stays same (I) b. doubles (2I) c. quadruples (4I)
2. What happens to the net power on the screen?
a. stays same b. doubles c. quadruples

10. Explanation
Light interfering from 10 equally spaced slits initially illuminates a screen. Now we double the number of slits, keeping the spacing constant.
1. What happens to the intensity I at the principal maxima?
a. stays same (I) b. doubles (2I) c. quadruples (4I)
2. What happens to the net power on the screen?
a. stays same b. doubles c. quadruples
IN = N2I1.
If we double the number of slits, we expect the power on the screen
to double. How does this work?
The number of principal maxima (which have most of the power) does not change.
The principal maxima become 4X brighter.
But they also become only half as wide.
Therefore, the net power (integrating over all the peaks) increases two-fold, as we would expect.

11. Clicker Review #2: Multiple Slitsϕ 2p
-2p I
9I1
ϕ= ?
1. What value of ϕ corresponds to the first zero of the 3-slit interference pattern?
a) ϕ= π /2
b) ϕ=2π/3
c) ϕ=3π/4
2. What value of ϕ corresponds to the first zero of the 4-slit interference pattern?
a) ϕ=π/2
b) ϕ=2π/3
c) ϕ=3π/4

12. Solution I f f = ? ϕ=3π/4 ϕ=2π/3 f Yes. The square gives A = 0.2p
-2p I
9I1
f = ?
1. What value of ϕ corresponds to the first zero of the 3-slit interference pattern?
a) ϕ=π/2
b) ϕ=2π/3
c) ϕ=3π/4 A
ϕ= π/2 f
No. A is not zero.
ϕ=2π/3
Yes! Equilateral triangle gives A = 0.
ϕ=3π/4
No. Triangle does not close.
ϕ = π/2 f
2. What value of ϕ corresponds to the first zero of the 4-slit interference pattern?
Yes. The square gives A = 0.
a) ϕ=π/2
b) ϕ=2π/3
c) ϕ=3π/4
To obtain a zero, we need a closed figure.Nϕ must be a multiple of 2π,
so the first zero is at 2π/N.

13. Multiple-slit Exampley
Three narrow slits with equal spacing d are at
a distance L = 1.4 m away from a screen. The
slits are illuminated at normal incidence with
light of wavelength λ = 570 nm. The first principal
maximum on the screen is at y = 2.0 mm.
1. What is the slit spacing, d?
2. If the wavelength, λ, is increased, what happens to the width of the principal maxima?
3. If the intensity of each slit alone is I1, what is the intensity of the secondary maximum? θ L d
This is not in the printed notes.

14. Phasor diagram: Two phasors cancel, leaving only one  I1 A1
Three narrow slits with equal spacing d are at
a distance L = 1.4 m away from a screen. The
slits are illuminated at normal incidence with
light of wavelength λ = 570 nm. The first principal
maximum on the screen is at y = 2.0 mm.
1. What is the slit spacing, d?
The first maximum occurs when the path difference between adjacent slits is λ. This happens at sinθ = λ/d. We are told that tanθ = y/L = 1.43 x10-3, so the small angle approximation is OK. Therefore,
d ≈ λ/θ = 0.40 mm.
2. If the wavelength, λ, is increased, what happens to the width of the principal maxima? The width increases, the width ~ λ/a for a single slit.
3. If the intensity of each slit alone is I1, what is the intensity of the secondary maximum? y θ d L
Phasor diagram: Two phasors cancel, leaving only one  I1 A1 =

15. How does holography work?
Follow the analysis using the Figure below.